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Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 59 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 82. Sunny skies are in the forecast. The glorious nearly full moon is sending her light into my office. When I walked out on the deck, which faces east, I saw the green space bathed in moonlight and knew that she would be shining into my office window. I will make a point at 6:19am MST to turn off my office lights and sit in the full moon glow.
It was a good night for Democrats with statehouse wins in Virginia and New Jersey. Surprise wins in Georgia and a repudiation of Good Ol’ Boy’ism with Groper Cuomo losing to the Muslim Socialist in New York City. Maybe the young people are onto something – capitalism has not worked very well for most of us. It made sociopaths like Elon Musk and Peter Theil and Mark Zuckerberg and Rupert Murdoch and Jeff Bezos obscenely wealthy and enriched the destroyers of our planet, the oil companies and mining companies. Maybe a touch of socialism here and there will help even things out and give some power to those who want people to thrive not just rich donors.
It sounds like Republican congress members are losing patience with the Drooling Dotard who they call king. The court ordered SNAP restoration, which made them glad to not have to own the starvation of their own constituents, was cancelled in a late night posting from their king’s “throne”. No one knows what’s next. I hope the emergency money that some states are finding for food banks is enough until it can be sorted out. I saw something that suggested that there are now promises of votes on the ACA subsidies being extended in the next set of bills in exchange for ending the shutdown – I hope someone is making sure that something more than just a promise is part of what is passed. Without the shutdown stick, the Democrats have nothing – the press will not report what they did to try to save the subsidies accurately.
My vehicle saga has not finished and I am starting on round two of necessary repairs. I now have a full assessment and an appointment and will be starting the new year with confidence that my car keep running. Now I just have to avoid being smashed into and run over by the Snow Birds! Gawd are they terrible drivers.
See all y’all later!
Wednesday Meese. Democrats turned out in our local elections. Yay!
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Hurricane Melissa
Good morning. Interesting election results. Locally, a tax proposition went down in flames — it was funding for important stuff like health, homelessness, parks & libraries but the City has made some stupid financial decisions this year and people just said “no”. I’m glad for the Democratic victories. I hope the rotting pumpkin spent the entire night having a tantrum.